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The Incredible Visual Skills of Ronaldo
For those of you who have attended our volleyball clinics for coaches, you have heard us say that “Volleyball is a visual skill with an...
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Gold Medal Squared
- Dec 30, 2012
Quite a Stretch
For those of you who have attended one of our volleyball clinics, you will know that we discuss what a waste of time stretching is during...
Gold Medal Squared
- Nov 25, 2012
Coaching Volleyball – Teaching the Step-Hop
Is the Split-Step Worth Teaching in Volleyball? We have been experimenting with a step-hop (or split-step in Tennis) with our passers,...
Gold Medal Squared
- Sep 23, 2012
Fitness for Club Volleyball
Here is a common question we get, voiced in an email from a clinic attendee. “I’d like to get an opinion from you. I’m concerned about...
Gold Medal Squared
- Aug 9, 2012
Five Coaching Strengths that Produce Champions
This summer’s Olympics got us thinking: how do we as managers and leaders become coaches who elicit greatness in others? A study of the...
Gold Medal Squared
- Aug 8, 2012
Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication
While out working coaching clinics and summer volleyball camps, it’s common for us to engage in conversation regarding training different...
Gold Medal Squared
- Jun 28, 2012
Specificity
One of the “hot button” items at our coaching clinics is when Carl discards the notion of general athletic ability and lays out the...
Gold Medal Squared
- May 29, 2012
Training Wheels
An interesting article about the effectiveness of training wheels. What are some other examples in youth sports where the training...
Gold Medal Squared
- May 24, 2012
The Feedback Trap(s)
One of the many debts I owe to Ron Larsen is the day he handed me a study taken of John Wooden’s feedback. The study codified Wooden’s...
Gold Medal Squared
- May 9, 2012
Jumper’s Knee
We have had several requests for a blog post that address common volleyball injuries. So I spoke with Blain Empey, an athletic trainer...
Gold Medal Squared
- Mar 13, 2012
The Benefits of Team Mixing: Why None of Us Are as Smart as All of Us
Another post from Dr. Steve Bain, who not only knows a lot about neuro-science, but is becoming quite a good volleyball coach as well. ...
Gold Medal Squared
- Feb 13, 2012
Coaching the Kicking Game – Doug Blevins
In Chico CA, NFL football has been particularly exciting to watch over the last couple of years. Aaron Rodgers is a hometown hero and...
Gold Medal Squared
- Jan 31, 2012
Improvement IS Addictive
This post comes to us from Dr. Steve Bain, who not only knows a lot about neuro-science, but is becoming quite a good volleyball coach as...
Gold Medal Squared
- Dec 24, 2011
Initial Ability vs. Final Ability
Let’s call this CONCEPT ONE. In our GMS coaching clinics we often say that initial ability and final ability are not highly correlated....
Gold Medal Squared
- Nov 28, 2011
Deriving Meaning from Hoosiers
If you’re like me, “Hoosiers” is one of your favorite all-time sports films. I love everything about it; the discipline, the one last...
Gold Medal Squared
- Nov 15, 2011
BYU Study
Gil Fellingham is a statistics professor at BYU, and is responsible for many of the volleyball studies done here at GMS. This is an...
Gold Medal Squared
- Oct 22, 2011
The Only Way To Coach
There has been a lot of talk in the volleyball community about the central premise of Gold Medal Squared, and the misconception that “GMS...
Gold Medal Squared
- Oct 12, 2011
Breaking the 10,000-Hour Rule
Why is Olympic gold medalist, Shaun White, affectionately known as the “flying tomato,” the only skateboarder to land a front-side,...
Gold Medal Squared
- Sep 29, 2011
Science and Coaching
Annie Murphy Paul wrote an article that was published in the NY Times on September 10, 2011 titled The Trouble with Homework. (You can...
Gold Medal Squared
- Mar 23, 2011
Whole Training
This is one of the original “articles” from our old website; we are reposting the entire series here on our blog. Dr. Steve Bain, a...
